Turning a Corner?. Clear explanations make this animated graph about economic cycles easy to understand.

Amazing Girls. Photos with audio interviews of high-achieving high school students. A similar format could be used to introduce a company s culture to new employees.

RSS in Plain English. Not interactive, but a clever and low-budget approach to a video demonstration that uses pieces of paper. They describe their equipment briefly here .

Six Famous Thought Experiments. Also not interactive, but shows how animation and humor can be used to explain abstract concepts.

Birth of a Tornado. Explanation is provided by text that s placed near the graphic the efficient and cost-effective alternative to audio.

Laptop ports. Review the ports, then click on the port you would use for each task. Lets you explore the laptop and skip what you already know.

Crimescene game. Simple branching scenario in which you interview a teller after a bank robbery. The page includes several versions of the game with different production levels.

More advanced interactions

Blood Typing Game from Nobelprize.org

The samples below include more complex navigation or sophisticated animation.

What Is a Print?. Make four types of prints in this fun interactive from the Museum of Modern Art.

The Elegant Universe. A PBS site on string theory. Try Multidimensional Math.

The Making of a Brick. Shows how Legos are made. The text is hard to read, but the cartoon incorporates video in an interesting way.

Is It Better to Buy or Rent? Interactive graphic that lets you input data to see when it s better to buy a home. Much more efficient than pages of text-only explanation.

The flow towards Europe. Combines an interactive map and timeline to let you explore the flow of migrants into Europe.

Skeleton game. Drag the bone to the right area of the body. Explore the site to try many other games.

Blood typing game. Figure out each patient s blood type and give them the right transfusion before it s too late. Simple graphics but compelling situation.

Choose a Different Ending from droptheweapons.org

Simulations and branching scenarios For scenario design tips and more examples, see the scenarios category of this site.

Connect with Haji Kamal. Can you help a young lieutenant make a good impression on a tribal leader in Afghanistan?

Choose a Different Ending. Video that uses YouTube s linking annotation feature to create a compelling first-person story (warning: uses some violent content to deliver an anti-violence message).

Spent. You ve lost your job and are running out of money. Can you get a new job and stay afloat?

Inner Vision. Keep fictional characters from killing themselves. Basic images but intelligent script; some language not safe for work. This was done in Flash but could easily have been produced in a more basic tool like Twine .

CameraSim. Change the aperture and other settings and see how that affects your photo.

Aftermarket profit potential. Read a paper about the aftermarket profit potential for products and services, then experiment with several types of offerings.

Nursing simulation. You re a nurse and need to make decisions about two patients.

Manage the budget of France. French-language simulation that requires you to balance the country s budget and win parliamentary approval.

Clearly Trained. Custom Flash interactions.

Allen Interactions. Several course demos (registration required).

SuddenlySmart examples and discussion of effective elearning.

WILL Interactive demos of highly produced branching scenarios.

Fluent in Finance course by Enspire.

Bear 71. Follow a GPS-collared bear as she tells how her life is affected by humans.

Folksongs for the Five Points. Drag five points around the streets of New York s Lower East Side and hear sounds from all points simultaneously. Use the mixer at the bottom of the screen to change the mix or stop individual sounds.